JWIL Volume 33, Number 2, April 2025

Introduction – “Leaving Traces”: Decolonial Hauntings and Affective Ecologies
Michael A. Bucknor and Aon Ul Abideen

Essays

Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction and the Impossibility of Innocence: Representing the Trauma of Childhood Experience in Trinidadian Young-Adult Literature
Betsy Nies

Artificial Intelligence, Tyrannies, and Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber
Kris Singh

Wilson Harris, the Zemi Shaman
Gabriel Cambraia Neiva

Interviews

“Where the hauntings emerge”: A Conversation with Rajiv Mohabir
Anita Baksh

“Glimpses of a beauty that you know exists”: A Conversation with Linzey Corridon
Ronald Cummings

Tributes for Velma Pollard

Jean D’Costa; Betty Wilson; Maureen Warner-Lewis; Joan Anim-Addo; Merle Collins; Evelyn O’Callaghan; Amina Blackwood Meeks; Alecia McKenzie; Alison Donnell; Michael A. Bucknor; Millicent A. A. Graham; Tanya Shields; Tanya Shirley; Ronald Cummings; Kezia Page

Book Reviews

Jocelyn Fenton Stitt, Dreams of Archives Unfolded: Absence and Caribbean Life Writing
Reba K. Charles-Dickson

Matthew Chin, Fractal Repair: Queer Histories of Modern Jamaica
Kedon Willis

Shani Mootoo, Oh Witness Deh!
Courtenay Chan

Aimé Césaire, ……And the Dogs Were Silent / ……Et les chiens se taisaient, translated by Alex Gil
Laëtitia Saint-Loubert

Vijay Mishra, V. S. Naipaul and World Literature
Nivedita Misra

Notes on Contributors